whose teachings have not been incorporated in a condensed form into the pages of this volume, which is just splendid.

LEA'S SERIES OF MEDICAL EPITOMES: MAGEE AND JOHNSON'S EPITOME OF SURGERY. A Manual for Students and Practitioners. By M. D'Arcy Magee, A. M., M. D., Demonstrator of Surgery and Lecturer on Minor Surgery; and Wallace Johnson, Ph.D., M. D., Demonstrator of Pathology and Bacteriology in Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, D. C. In one 12 mo volume of 295 pages, with 129 engravings. Cloth, $1.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1904.

The authors and editors have made an earnest endeavor to furnish an authoritative, clear, compact presentation of the essentials of modern surgery. While this little volume is by no means intended to take the place of a text-book, it will be found convenient for study many times, when a large book is inaccessible, while for students' use in quizzing themselves or each other, in preparation for college or State Board examinations, it will be of the utmost service.

EXAMINATION OF THE URINE. By G. A. de Santos Saxe, M. D., Pathologist to the Columbus Hospital, New York City. 12mo volume of 391 pages, fully illustrated, including 8 colored plates. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Flexible leather; $1.50 net.

Dr. Saxe has presented a work on examination of the urine unusually complete, absolutely up to date, concise, yet explicit in all its parts; and it will be found to meet fully the requirements of the student and practitioner. Special attention has been paid to the interpretation of findings as applied to clinical diagnosis, and the student is told what each chemical element and each microscopic structure means when found in the urine. The character of the urine in various diseases is also described in detail. Descriptions of technic have been made very explicit, and the author has inserted some new methods of working developed in his own experience. Cryoscopy and other means of functional diagnosis have been given their proper places. The text is fully illustrated, including eight colored plates of the various urinary crystals. The work will be useful because it is practical.

SAUNDERS' QUESTION COMPENDS: ESSENTIALS OF CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC AND INORGANIC. Containing also questions on Medical Physics, Chemical Philosophy, Medical Processes, Toxicology, etc. By Lawrence Wolff, M. D., formerly Demonstrator of Chemistry at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Sixth edition; thoroughly revised. By A. Ferree Witmer, Ph.G., formerly Assistant Demonstrator in Physiology at the University of Pennsylvania. 12mo volume of 225 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Cloth, $1.00 net.

We need but mention the fact that this little work has reached its sixth edition to prove beyond question its practical usefulness. The recent important discoveries in physics and inorganic chemistry have rendered it necessary, in Dr. Witmer's revision, to make extensive additions almost to every part of the work. The subject of organic chemistry, especially organotherapy and the substituted ammonias, has also been carefully revised and much new matter added. We find the book unusually excellent. A TEXT-BOOK OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS. By Laboratory Methods. For the use of Students, Practitioners, and Laboratory Workers. By L. Napoleon Boston, A. M., M. D., Associate in Medicine and Director of the Clinical Laboratories of the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; formerly Bacteriologist at the Philadelphia Hospital and at the Ayer Clinical Laboratory of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Octavo volume of 547 pages, with 320 illustrations, many of them in colors. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904. Cloth, $4.00, net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $5.00, net.

Dr. Boston here presents a practical manual of those clinical laboratory methods which furnish a guide to correct diagnosis, giving only such methods, however, that can be carried out by the busy practitioner in his office as well as by the student in the laboratory. He has given special attention to outlining in progressive steps the various procedures in clinical technic, such steps being illustrated whenever possible. All the more recent methods for the examination and staining of the blood are described and illustrated by original drawings, and the subject of Serum-Diagnosis is very carefully considered. The newer methods for the estimation of Sugar, Bence-Jones's Albumin, Uric Acid, and Purin have received thoughtful consideration. The subjects of Animal Parasites, Diseases of the Skin, Transudates and Exudates, and Secretions of the Eye and Ear have

received an unusual amount of space. Attention has also been paid to Inoscopy and Cyto-diagnosis. Indeed the book contains much useful material throughout, and being the latest work on Clinical Diagnosis, includes the most recent advances along that line.

THE GAZETTE POCKET SPELLER AND DEFINER. English and Medical. Second edition. New York. The Gazette Publishing Company, 35 West 42d Street. (50 cents.)

This little brochure of 216 pages is so compactly arranged that it can be slipped into the vest pocket. Nearly half the work is medical, and while of course it is not so full as more voluminous works, yet it contains the larger portion of the medical terms which are sought by the average reader for information as to spelling and definition. Medical students and drug clerks will find it exceedingly useful.

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INFANT FEEDING, with notes on development, by Henry Dwight Chapin, A. M., M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Attending Physician to the Post-Graduate, Willard Parker, and Riverside Hospitals; Consulting Physician to the Randall's Island Hospital. Second edition, revised, with numerous illustrations, 8 vo, Cloth, 342 pp. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, New York, 1904.

This valuable book has been thoroughly and carefully revised, and much of it has been re-written and extended, this second edition showing most clearly what a peculiar and distinct position artificial feeding of infants has attained in the field of dietetics.

Dr. Chapin is fully in accord with the leading standard authorities of the day, and while much has been done in recent years looking to the employment of substitute foods for infants, in this work the special function of milk in developing the digestive tract of the child is most carefully treated. Very important discoveries pertaining to cow's milk have recently been made, and the physiology of milk, together with the true principles of artificial feeding, is very carefully and ably considered.

The clear, beautiful print, fine paper, and mechanical execution of the volume are all well in keeping with the well-known establishment of Messrs. Wm. Wood & Co.

A HANDBOOK OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY, with an introductory section on Post-Mortem Examinations and the Methods of Preserving and Examining Diseased Tissues. By Francis Delafield, M. D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of the Practice of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; and T. Mitchell Prudden, M. D., LL.D., Professor of Pathology, and Director of the Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. Seventh edition, with thirteen fullpage plates, and 545 illustrations in the text in black and colors; 8vo, cloth, pp. 885. William Wood & Company, Publishers, New York, 1904.

Who does not know Mitchell and Prudden in this day and age who has made any pretensions to a successful study of medicine? yes, and to love them for the grand book they have given to the medical world.

Dr. Prudden states that "Dr. Delafield no longer shares in the preparation of the work; so that the writer, deprived of the wise counsel and large experience of the senior author, is alone responsible for such alterations and additions as have been made. in this as in the last revision." Yet he has received valuable assistance from Professors Francis C. Wood, Frederick R. Bailey, Eugene Hodenpyl, P. H. Hiss, Jr., Dr. John H. Larkin, and other able collaborators.

The book has been largely revised. The section on immunity has been entirely rewritten. Ehrlich's side chain' hypothesis has been set forth with considerable detail, as well as the new lore relating to various phases of cytolisis. However, it needs no praise at our hands. Its many excellencies have been so long known that any words of praise would be like painting the lily or refining pure gold. We will say, however, that its many and varied illustrations have not, and cannot, be excelled.

CLINICAL URINOLOGY. By Alfred C. Croftan, M. D., Professor of Medicine, Chicago Post-Graduate Medical College and Hospital; Physician-inChief to St. Mary's Hospital, and Pathologist to St. Luke's Hospital. Illustrated, pp. 298, 8vo,, cloth. William Wood & Company, New York, Publishers, 1904.

This book, as the title, "Clinical Urinology," indicates, is a

treatise on the urinary aspect of disease. It is in no sense meant to be merely a laboratory guide to the analysis of urine; nor is it intended to be a purely clinical disquisition on the disorders that produce urinary abnormalities. Its purpose is to describe the borderland that lies between the laboratory and the clinic, and it does it well.

It is an excellent elucidation of the relationships of the biological and clinical interpretations of facts to normal physiology, and to physiology perverted by disease.

Selections.

CHOREA AND ANEMIA. In the etiology of chorea, nothing is noted relative to anemia. It is simply accounted as an accompanying symptom of the condition. Medical literature emphasizes the relation between rheumatism and chorea, with anemia as an important symptom. After observation of several cases, I am strongly of the opinion, however, that anemia as a causative factor is worthy of investigation.

Anemia of toxic origin presents pathological conditions which favor the production of choreaic affections. It is true that simple anemia is, as a rule, of secondary origin, and, viewed in this light, it may be argued that if chorea arises, it is the result of the primary and not of the secondary conditions thus agreeing with the admitted etiology. This argument, however, will not satisfactorily explain those cases of chorea which arise remotely from the primary condition, but recently from the secondary effects.

I submit three cases in which symptoms, treatment, and recovery seem to intimate at least a possible relation between anemia and chorea.

CASE I. A female child of eight years gave a history of typhoid fever eight months prior to my visit. According to the